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On February 8 Oprah aired a special about the film, The Secret. Oprah has 49 million viewers a week so the cat is out of the bag. Due to popular demand a follow-up will air on February 16. The feature length movie was released last year and is “so powerful that it can change the course of your life.” The Secret is now offered on DVD. The producers promise that it’s the secret to everything, “the secret to unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, youth: everything you have ever wanted.” Sound too good to be true? Snake oil usually is.

Here’s my point. The Secret breaks two of the Ten Commandments: “You shall have no other gods before Me” and “You shall not covet your neighbors house.” Every week 49 million viewers get their marching orders from Oprah, and that includes many Christians. Oprah is not a Christian. Far from it. Oprah Winfrey is steeped in New Age Spirituality. What’s baffling to me is that when she recommends a book on “spirituality” hordes of self-professed Christians rush to their local bookstore to purchase it. (Hopefully not a Christian bookstore.) And Oprah isn’t the only celebrity promoting the DVD. Larry King calls The Secret the "most profound information he has run across in 40 years." Winfrey and King have helped put the DVD in the #1 position on Amazon.com. And you ain’t seen nothin’ yet, folks.

Those who are reading this article have all the facts they need to assess the merits of the film. The discerning Christian will not purchase the DVD. Moreover, the discerning Christian will not spend time watching a woman who blatantly denies the Lordship of Jesus Christ and leads her followers off the straight and narrow path, down a road that leads to destruction.